Re: Using FIND to globally rename files...

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Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

How do you use FIND to globally rename files?

I find that some music files that have '!' embedded in them
to cause conflicts especially when attempting to use
Nautilus to move them from one location into another,
so I wish to rename files that have offending characters
in them.

I tried:

1) find . -type f -name \*.mp3 -exec mv "{}" `echo \"{}\" | sed -e 's/[!]//`" \;
   Nope.  Does not work.

2) find . -type f -name \*.mp3 | xargs "echo "mv \"{}\" `echo \"{}\" | sed -e 's/\!//`"" Ah, this is really convoluted, of course it does not work. It is rife with errors indeed!
   :)

Yes, the second has serious problems with nesting of quotes.  Simplest
way is to use the 'rename' command:

   find . -type f -name '*!*.mp3' -exec rename '!'  ''  {} \;

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